Michael Schnell schrieb:
On 06/24/2013 12:43 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
I e.g. remember your strange (Delphi incompatible) opinions about
RawByteString and encodings in a startup discussion.
Yep. As I did not have DTX to try it, I only read what I could find in
the internet and supposedly got it wrong.
Yes, still wrong despite earlier explanations :-(
I hope, now I understand that the type RawByteString ( = String ($FFFF)
) means "codesize = 1 Byte, never to be auto-converted to any
differently encoded String type variable.
No. Even if I would like such an encoding, too, Delphi doesn't implement it.
I seem to understand that DXE does not provide a fully dynamic string
type (e.g. to be used as a function parameter taking any String(x) type
without auto-conversion. I still do hope that fpc will provide this one
day.
This is what RawByteString is for. A RawByteString can have *any*
encoding, it's kind of a generic AnsiString. Other AnsiStrings have a
*fixed* encoding, that determines eventually required conversions.
Moreover I do hope for RawWordString, RawDwordString and RawQWordeString.
Not in Delphi. For binary data TBytes has been added.
DoDi
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